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is a railway station in Fujieda,

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, Japan, operated by

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(JR Tōkai).

Lines

Fujieda Station is served by the

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, and is located 200.3 kilometers from the starting point of the line at

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Station layout

Fujieda Station has an

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular o ...

serving Track 2 and Track 3, and a

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serving the seldom-used Track 1. The platforms are connected to the station building by an elevated station concourse. The station building has automated

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s, TOICA automated

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s and a staffed "

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" service counter.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

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History

Fujieda Station was opened on April 16, 1889 when the section of the

connecting Shizuoka with

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was completed. The city of Fujieda did not exist at that time, and the station was located in Aoshima Village. On April 27, 1889, a senior official of the

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was killed while attempting to jump onto a departing

express train An express train is a type of passenger train that makes a small number of stops between its origin and destination stations, usually major destinations, allowing faster service than local trains that stop at most or all of the stations alon ...

from the platform of Fujieda Station. At the time, trains on the Tōkaidō Main Line had no toilets, and the accident led to their introduction on May 10 of the same year. Fujieda became an

interchange station An interchange station or a transfer station is a train station for more than one railway route in a public transport system that allows passengers to change from one route to another, often without having to leave a station or pay an additio ...

with the establishment of services by the (the future

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) on November 16, 1913, and which opened a

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to Ōigawa Town in 1914. Operations of the Shizuoka Railway were discontinued at Fujieda on October 1, 1970. Regularly scheduled freight service was discontinued in 1971.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 11,362 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

*Fujieda City Hall

References

*Yoshikawa, Fumio. ''Tokaido-sen 130-nen no ayumi''. Grand-Prix Publishing (2002) .

External links

* {{Tōkaidō Main Line (JR Central) Railway stations in Japan opened in 1889 Railway stations in Shizuoka Prefecture Tōkaidō Main Line Stations of Central Japan Railway Company Fujieda, Shizuoka